Jessie van Eerden‘s first novel, Glorybound (WordFarm, 2011) won this year’s Editor’s Choice Fiction Prize from ForeWord Reviews. Her prose has appeared in The Oxford American, Bellingham Review, The River Teeth Reader, Best American Spiritual Writing, and Longman’s college reader Dreams & Inward Journeys. Van Eerden received her MFA in nonfiction at the University of Iowa and was awarded the Milton Fellowship at Image and Seattle Pacific University for work on Glorybound. She directs the low-residency MFA writing program at WV Wesleyan College.